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Sentences starting with fright

Fright unsettles the judgment: the oppressive silence of the woods is a vacuum in which the mind goes astray. [4]
Fright was turned into joy by the sight of the Phoenix, with Captain Nelson and his company, who had been for three months detained in the West Indies, and given up for lost. [4]
Fright followed fright, and when the leech came voluntarily to enquire for her, he found a dying woman. [10]

Sentences ending with fright

He was paralyzed with fright. [5]
I was taken up to the top of tall houses, through a smell of cabbage that was appalling, to find empty and dreary rooms, from which I fled in fright. [4]
Finding it liquid, they would snatch away their heads and fall to trembling, snorting and showing other evidences of fright. [5]
They both reached the bottom of the flight at the same time,--the woman insensible from the fright. [5]
Beside her in the bed she could feel the soft body of her younger sister cuddling up to her in fright. [9]
But the first step he made wrung such a hideous creak from the crazy floor that he sank down almost dead with fright. [5]
Great Serapis, I shall die of fright! [10]
I got hold of a gun in the dark, and pushed it through a crack between the logs, hardly knowing what I was doing, I was so dazed with fright. [5]
The officer fell, not so much from the blow--which had but slightly cut his arm above the elbow--as from the shock to his horse and from fright. [2]
In two strides I had seized him by the skin over his ribs, and he shrieked with pain and fright. [9]

Short sentences using fright

Fast asleep after his fright. [2]

More example sentences with the word fright in them

She gave a wild whinny of fright, and jumped cornerwise, clear out across the chasm, towards the moving bridge. [11]
The young people, whose sport had been interrupted, had recovered from their fright and joined in a long chain. [10]
The lion, too, which lay unchained by his master's seat, gave her a fright now and then; for if Caesar raised his voice in anger, he growled and stood up. [10]
And whilst they were so occupied Mr. Marmaduke entered, wholly frenzied from fright, and utterly oblivious to his own blame in the matter. [9]
They say Dicky was half dead with fright, and wanted to put in anywhere. [9]
The judge insisted upon their answering, and proposed to compel them, but even the prosecution took fright and came to the rescue then, and helped stay the sturdy jurist's revolutionary hand. [5]
Seeing their enemy unexpectedly the French fell into confusion and stopped short from the sudden fright, but then they resumed their flight, abandoning their comrades who were farther behind. [2]
Big Bill Cowan, undaunted in war, stared at me with fright written on his face. [9]
They flocked to Toul to see and enjoy this fright and embarrassment and defeat, and they had their trouble for their pains. [5]
The mottled horse took fright at our band, which at that instant strikes up 'The Chevalier Drew his Sabre'. [11]
My object was to come out upon my guards as La Jongleuse, and, in the fright and confusion which should follow, make my escape through the corridors and to the entrance doors, past the sentinels, and so on out. [11]
He had need to be, for I fell into as great a fright as ever I had had in my life. [9]
An instant later there were footsteps in the room, followed by a cry of fright and amazement. [11]
He looked at the plump face, the full amiable eyes, now misty with fright, at the characterless hand nervously feeling the golden moustache, at the well-fed, inert body; and he knew that whatever the trouble or the peril, Dan Welldon could not surmount it alone. [11]
Then what in the name of all that's infernal," quoth Nicholls, "brought your sneaking face to yon window to fright my lady-guests? [11]
The anguish and the fright which this thought gave me made my previous sufferings seem trifling by comparison. [5]
Then I recognized the charity and the friendliness in the faces before me, and little by little my fright melted away, and I began to talk Within three or four minutes I was comfortable, and even content. [5]
It is sometimes the case that a good fright will heal a feud. [9]
Then came the story of that other incident, sufficiently alluded to already, which had produced such an ecstasy of fright and left such a nightmare of apprehension in the household. [6]
Presently, with a stir of fright and a smothered cry, she waked to a sound which was not of the supernatural or of the mind's illusions, but no less dreadful to her because of that. [11]
Will stood stock still from fright, and I was for dropping my rod and cutting, when I was arrested by the dominie calling out: "Have a care, Master Carvel; have a care, sir. [9]
She must not show fright before him, and yet she could not trust her voice to speak just then. [9]
She did not recover from the fright, but went mad. [5]
Now they came quite close to her, and she trembled with fright, for one of them was a soldier. [10]
The village was paralyzed with fright, distress, despair. [5]
And I shall never forget the fright she gave me as she rose from the table and handed me the sheet to read, crying but the one word. [9]
The woman crept near and looked on, eagerly, lovingly, but timorously,--like one who fears a repulse; indeed, she tried furtively to touch the man's forehead, and jumped back, the picture of fright, when I turned unconsciously toward her. [5]
As for me, my fright increased. [9]
A rattle of musketry set me shivering, and in an agony of fright I looked behind me to discover that I could not be more than four hundred yards from the fort. [9]
Before he had made six paces I had him by the shoulder, and he let out a shriek of fright like a woman's. [9]
He sank down limp and half lifeless with fright, his strength gone; but he muttered with a deep joy: "He has learnt me! [5]
The poor damp laborers were stricken to the heart with fright, and stampeded for the high grass in a body. [5]
What a fright it gave them! [10]
With a woman's involuntary loving cunning she, who till then had not shown any alarm, said that she would die of fright if they did not leave that very night. [2]
But in both instances the sensation was pleasurable--intensely so; it was a sudden and immense exaltation, a mixed ecstasy of deadly fright and unimaginable joy. [5]
As we walked in the filtered sunlight we had a great fright, Polly Ann and I. Shrill, discordant cries suddenly burst from the branches above us, and a flock of strange, green birds flecked with red flew over our heads. [9]
Then Wrangle, plunging in fright, lifted Venters and nearly threw him. [13]
Once I woke in an awful fright --it seemed to me that the calling was right there in the garret! [5]
If she did-- if she dared to care for him--" All at once she shivered as if with shame and fright, drew the bedclothes about her head, and burst into a fit of weeping. [11]
She stood as if rooted to the spot, and, trembling with fright, she pressed the cold, wet, golden jar, sacred to the god, closely to her bosom. [10]
This very singular idiosyncrasy he attributed to a fright when he was an infant in the arms of his nurse. [6]
Mr. Marmaduke, as I expected, was in a great temper, and swore he had not had such a fright for years. [9]
Wheels come off, horses take fright, coachmen drive too fast, coaches overturn. [12]
The high hedge hid him from the house, now; and so, under the impulse of a deadly fright, he let out all his forces and sped toward a wood in the distance. [5]
Hawkeye rose from her fright triumphant and rejoicing, and down went Stone's Landing! [5]
She sprang to her feet, shaking with fright, and cried out-- "Oh, good lack, what have I done! [5]
But Agatha had heard him call, and in a great fright she wanted to know where she was, and asked to go home.--Serapion was really grand. [10]
Filled with fright he opened his eyes and lifted his head from under his cloak. [2]
Elephant passed through half an hour ago, creating wildest fright and excitement. [5]
He had himself given Ismail a fright, and had even gone so far as to suggest inside knowledge of the plans of Europe concerning Egypt. [11]
Every person was frightened at the unaccountable state of things at Marget's house, not doubting that witchcraft was at the bottom of it, and fright frenzied their reason. [5]
They started, in fright, every time the gauge-cocks sent out an angry hiss, and they quaked from head to foot when the mud-valves thundered. [5]
Nefert shrieked with fright, but the dog at once knew her, and crouched against her with whines of recognition. [10]
Second, while the fright was on her, she must be made to sign a paper. [5]
Ever after this fright it is said that Pascal had the terrifying sense that he was just on the edge of an abyss, ready to fall over. [6]
A kind of fright came, and then they steadied. [11]
Napoleon with his forty-year-old stomach understood that hint, not feeling his former agility and boldness, and under the influence of the fright the Cossacks had given him he at once agreed with Mouton and issued orders--as the historians tell us--to retreat by the Smolensk road. [2]
I opened my eyes to find her bending over me with such a look of fright and remorse upon her face as I shall never forget. [9]
Tom's fright weakened every muscle in his body. [5]
I could not endure the fright and the misery that were in her face. [5]
I laid a dry stick on the ground and tried to bore a hole in it with another one, in order to carry out a scheme that I had, and soon I got an awful fright. [5]
Here, suddenly, Dyck dropped to the ground, for he saw unmistakable signs of fright or flurry in the hoofmarks. [11]
As he was driving in his coach and four over the bridge at Neuilly, his horses took fright and ran away, and the leaders broke from their harness and sprang into the river, leaving the wheel-horses and the carriage on the bridge. [6]
Screams of fright, curses of defiance and hate mingled with the hissing of the water and the noise of its impact with the ground--like the tearing of heavy sail-cloth. [9]
I said he could make up his mind to it that we would do a deed before we were a week older which would make the hair of the timid curl with fright. [5]
This miserable, silly charge had that behind it which might open up a grave, make its dead to walk, fright folk from their senses, and destroy their peace for ever. [11]
He kept on, but when near her had a spasm of fright to make his teeth fairly chatter, and than another spasm followed, for Cynthia had turned around. [9]
She turned round; but as soon as she saw that he was a Roman, and, as his white toga told her, of the upper class, she took fright. [10]
His eyes stared at me in fright. [11]
After a time, as the meetings continued, John fell also under the general impression of fright and seriousness. [4]
Before those immediately around her had had time to recover from the palsy of their fright Myrtle had flung the knife away from her, and was kneeling, her head bowed and her hands crossed upon her breast. [6]
These bombs, at any rate, never failed to cause consternation and fright in Coniston, although they never did any harm. [9]
And in still another panic of fright we have this same tough civilisation saving its honour by condemning an innocent man to multiform death, and hugging and whitewashing the guilty one. [5]
Hunger and misery and sickness and fright and sorrow, and I don't know what all, got so loaded into them that none of them were ever rightly their old selves after the siege. [5]
Thee has seen a shadow; but let it not fright thee. [11]
I was as a man without a tongue, my hunger gone from sheer happiness--and fright. [9]
Mrs. Colfax retained a handful of lace from the wrapper, the owner of which emitted a shriek of fright. [9]
This last week a fright has been stealing upon me. [5]
She is like a deaf and dumb person, who by a sudden fright is restored to speech and hearing. [10]

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